Principal Test Engineer

Socket.dev; Colorado Springs (CO); On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

SAIC seeks a highly experienced Principal Test Engineer to support the US Space Force in Colorado Springs, focusing on the maintenance and sustainment of radar systems for strategic surveillance. You will design and execute comprehensive test plans, coordinate system integration efforts, and drive test automation initiatives to support DevSecOps teams, while aligning with contract requirements.

The role requires a bachelor's degree with 9+ years of experience, active Secret clearance, and strong

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree plus 9+ years of relevant experience required.
• Experience with DOORS for requirements management.
• Familiarity with CI/CD environments and Bamboo tooling.
• Experience with version control tools such as Bitbucket.
• Experience with Unix/Linux operating systems.

Responsibilities

• Participate, prepare, and execute comprehensive subsystem and enterprise-level test plans and procedures, and support system/element level test planning and test readiness reviews.
• Document test requirements and methodologies in the requirements management system.
• Support the development of system integration plans, procedures and scenarios used in testing.
• Develop innovative Test Automation solutions and support software development teams focusing on DevSecOps.
• Ensure personnel management actions are completed per contract requirements.

Skills

Secret Clearance

Unix/Linux

Requirements mgmt

CI/CD (Bamboo)

Bitbucket

Shell/Python scripting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field

Tools

DOORS

Bamboo

Bitbucket

Jira

Confluence

Job description

SAIC seeks a highly experienced Principal Test Engineer to support the US Space Force, Space Systems Command, in performing operational maintenance and sustainment of ground-based radars critical to US and Allied strategic missile surveillance, warning, defense, and space surveillance missions in Colorado Springs, Colorado. In support of the government customer, the SAIC Program Manager, and the Chief Engineer, the Test Engineer is responsible for development and execution of system test solutions in accordance with engineering documentation to ensure test plans and methodologies meet system needs, are accurate, comprehensive, consistent, and complete.

Job Duties:

• Participate, prepare, and execute comprehensive subsystem and enterprise-level test plans and procedures, and support system/element level test planning and test readiness reviews.

• Document test requirements and methodologies in the requirements management system.

• Support the development of system integration plans, procedures and scenarios used in the conduct of software/hardware system integration testing.

• Development of innovative Test Automation solutions and support the software development teams focused on DevSecOps solutions.

• Ensure personnel management actions are completed, and tasks are conducted in accordance with contract requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s and nine plus (9+) years’ of relevant experience.

• Active Secret Clearance.

• Experience in using a requirements management tool, such as DOORS.

• Familiarity or experience with continuous integration and deployment environments and tools such as Bamboo.

• Experience with version control tools such as Bitbucket.

• Experience with *ix operating systems.

Desired:

• Familiarity or experience with Agile software development methodologies, i.e., Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, to include use of Jira and Confluence.

• Experience sustaining UEWR and/or PARCS ground based radar systems.

• Experience in writing scripts using scripting languages such as Korn Shell, Bourne Shell, Python, Perl, bash, tcl, etc.

SAIC®is a premier mission integrator focused on advancing the power of technology and innovation to serve and protect our world. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, intelligence, and civilian markets includes secure high-end solutions in mission IT, enterprise IT, engineering services, and professional services. We integrate emerging technology, rapidly and securely, into mission critical operations that modernize and enable critical national imperatives.
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